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An integrated optical receiver for multilevel data communication over large core step index plastic optical fiber

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A BiCMOS integrated optical receiver with high sensitivity and good linearity is presented. An automatic gain control transimpedance amplifier (TIA) and linear post amplifiers are used to maintain a high linearity with multilevel modulation. Using multilevel signaling and large-diameter integrated photodiodes make the presented optical receiver suitable for small-bandwidth high-attenuation large-core PMMA step index plastic optical fiber. A measured sensitivity of −31 dBm (BER = 10−9) at 250 Mb/s is presented for a binary signal. A data rate of 500 Mb/s and a sensitivity of −25 dBm (BER = 10−9) are achieved with four-level pulse amplitude modulation (4-PAM). An error-free transmission over 40 m PMMA step index plastic optical fiber was achieved at 500 Mb/s using 4-PAM signaling with the presented multilevel optical receiver.

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  1. Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Electrodynamics, Microwave and Circuit Engineering, Gusshausstrasse 25/354, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    M. Atef, W. Gaberl & H. Zimmermann

  2. A3PICs Electronics Development GmbH, Webergasse 18, 1200, Vienna, Austria

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Atef, M., Gaberl, W., Swoboda, R. et al. An integrated optical receiver for multilevel data communication over large core step index plastic optical fiber. Analog Integr Circ Sig Process 67, 3–9 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10470-010-9494-4

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